So this is our first time writing a story together and we hope it comes out good and we hope you (the readers) really like it. So here goes the first chapter. ^o^
~~arachnophobia and Kuro-Lemur~~

Carrie Chapter 1: The Letter

In a large house in the middle of a large green field in Gravesend, England, a young girl is about to receive a letter that was going to change her life forever. For better or for worse.

Carrie woke to the smell of scrambled eggs, bacon, and presumably pumpkin pancakes. She got out of her bed and went down into the kitchen to see what and who was creating those appetizing scents. To her surprise, there were thousands of presents and decoration all around, from the kitchen to the dining room all the way to the family room. "Happy Birthday darling." A strong and loud voice came from behind as Carrie was suddenly picked up by her father and was given the biggest and tightest hug anyone could receive.

"T-thank you.. D-dad.." Carrie struggled to get the words out while still being squeezed to death. Her father then put her down and Carrie turned and gave her father a hug. Carries father was a tall slender man, with brown skin and medium length wavy black hair. He and Carrie both had one green eye, but her father had a brown eye instead of a blue one. "Where's mum?" Carrie asked.

"In the kitchen with the house elves. Go and see her!" Her father said while pushing and tickling Carrie into the direction of her mother. There stood a tall, very pale, elegant woman with long black straight hair that was kept in a bun-ponytail, the ponytail part was curled. She was in a long violet dress that swept the floor, with a shimmering silver belt and silver jewelry.

"There needs to be more icing on this cake... You didn't put the roses in the right place... Where are the candles?! Is breakfast ready ye-"

"Mommy!" Carrie called interrupting her mother's critic and preparations.

"Oh! Carrie!" her mother bent down and gave Carrie a big hug. "Happy Birthday love."

"Thank you mum." Carrie's mother had a strong jaw, light heavy lidded grey eyes and a calming soft voice that could calm a raging bull.

"Everything is almost ready love. Go wait in the dining room with your father, okay?"

"Yes ma'am." Carrie went to join her father in the dining room.

A few moments later, Carries mother comes out of the kitchen with the house elves. She took a seat at the left long side of the table, where her husband was on the opposite side and Carrie was at the top end of the table. The house elves placed plates of food in front of each person. Then one elf brought the cake in by having it levitate to the cake stand on the table. The cake had black layer of icing, with aquamarine roses that bloomed into 'Carrie Sara Salazar' and leaf green stems and leaf designs that seemed to have grown all across the cake. In the center it had the number eleven written with silver candles. "Happy eleventh birthday Carrie!" Carrie's parents said in unison. Carrie blew at the candles and instead of blowing out, the flames turned into mini fireworks stating Carries date of birth '01/31/1980'. Carrie face was awed by the display. Her father left the table for a moment then returned with a white envelope in his hand.

"This, I believe, is for you madam." He handed Carrie the envelope. Carrie read the words aloud, "Miss C.S. Salazar, Unseen house in the middle of a green field with a well, Cotton Ln., Gravesend." She proceeded to open the letter. and continued to read aloud.

"HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,

Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Miss Carrie Sara Salazar,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress"

Carrie looked up at her parents with the largest smile a little girl could possibly have. "I GET TO GO TO HOGWARTS?!" She asked ecstatically. Her mother nodded.

"We will go get your things at Diagon alley later on." Her father said. Carrie nodded in agreement, and the family went on with their breakfast and feasting.

Carrie is a small slender girl with light brown skin and thick waist length slightly wavy black hair. She had long dark eyelashes and prominent heavy-lidded bedroom eyes. Full lips, a weak jaw and a small chin. She took after her mother when it came to stunning beauty, but had her father's eyes and took after his brown skin tone. The Salazar family were nothing but a result a good breeding and great genes. Senor Glaucio Salazar was a wizard from Brazil that moved to England to go to school for wizardry. His mother, a British-Brazilian, enrolled him to Hogwarts after he was born. He met Carries mother, Senora Melinda Griselda Salazar nee Longbottom, at Hogwarts. They were both in the house of Slytherin. They had a lot in common, they both were from rich families and both had a passion for Potions and Transfiguration. Both were part of the Slug Club and into the Dark Arts, but neither of them were Death Eaters though they both believed in keeping the family bloodline pure.